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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

UK-based masters of everything heavy, depressive and oppressive, Eye Of Solitude have announced a string of dates with gothic-tinged death/doom metallers Saturnus and Marche Funebre. The min-tour, dubbed the 'March of Solitude 2015,' is set for March of next year and will mark Eye Of Solitude's first time in Germany.

On November 24, Eye Of Solitude will release Dear Insanity, a single song, 50 minute-long EP that will be available as a digital download and limited-edition (500 copies) CD. The disc will come packaged as a deluxe tri-panel DigiSleeve with artwork by Giannis Nakos of Remedy Art Design. A split release with death/doom act Faal is also set for an early 2015 release.

Eye Of Solitude's mesmerizing 2013 release, Canto III, which features six tracks of orchestral funeral doom for a total running time of 72+ minutes, is currently on sale at the Kaotoxin Records shop. The album is available as a limited-edition (1,000 copies at first press), hand-numbered double digi-CD, featuring six bonus tracks taken from the band's 2012 & 2013 digital EPs - Awoken by Crows and The Deceit - and as a digital download.

Furyon looks to release their second beast beginning of 2015. What’s to be expected is more of the same explosive guitar riffs and solos in well crafted song form. Expressive vocal delivery and melodies to scream along to. A possibly darker album still with progressive elements and a grungy edge. The album aims to be a 10 song album with additions (acoustic tracks and videos). Furyon are extremely excited and looking forward to sharing the outcome of this venture with the World.

Monday, September 29, 2014

Horror Pain Gore Death Productions has signed Miami, Florida's melodic black/death metal desecrators Inferion and will release the band's new album, This Will Decay, on October 21 on CD and Digital formats.

GunShyAssassin.com has posted the exclusive premiere of the album's title track. To listen, visit this location.

1. This Will Decay
2. Carrion For The Scavengers
3. Contempt
4. Tempted By Failure
5. Embers
6. Directionless
7. Until The Sun Consumes Us
8. Further From The Light
9. The Serpent In The Valley
10. Lament
11. Aftermath Of Destruction
12. When Bones Meet Corrosion
13. A Hell To Endure
14. Unrestrained

Formed in 1995, Inferion have refined their intense sound and present their finest work to date. This epic 14-track, 55-minute majestic masterpiece is a vicious onslaught of blackened death metal that crushes bone and penetrates flesh with the precision of a newly sharpened blade. Superior production quality tears through the many deep layers of this album to reveal complex lead guitar work, a wide array of vocal approaches and the relentless hyper blast of Carlos Delgado. This Will Decay solidifies Inferion's rightful place as one of 2014's purveyors of the most vile underground music available.

Unspeakable Axe Records has released Screams from the Catacombs, the debut EP from Cemetery Filth, on limited-edition cassette.

Hailing from the mountainous eastern region of Tennessee, Cemetery Filth sound as if they'd be more at home in an unholy netherworld poised somewhere between Finland and Sweden. This is old school death metal in a mainly European vein: morbid, twisted, and abstaining from technicality while injecting just the right-sized dose of melody and eerie lead guitar.

Unspeakable Axe Records is now offering the EP, which was self-recorded by the band earlier this year, on cassette. This release is limited to 200 copies. Check out the title track from Screams from the Catacombs at this location.

Norwegian black metallers Taake are set to embark on a headlining tour in October of this year. The eleven date tour will span four countries - the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. Supporting Taake on all the dates will be Valkyrja and Noctem. Routing, for what will be called the Kulde Tour, as follows:

Additionally, on the 4th of October Taake will headline at Norwegian Hellcamp, a first of its kind festival whose lineup features some of the top Norwegian bands at the extreme end of the spectrum. Norwegian Hellcamp will take place at the Stadthalle in Schweinfurt, Germany, and also appearing alongside Taake will be Vulture Industries, Ragnarok, Sarkom, Endezzma, Slagmaur, Aura Noir and Den Saakaldte.

Dark Essence Records recently announced that Taake would be releasing a new album later this year, and further information will be available shortly. From feedback received from the recent listening session the label held at the Beyond the Gates Festival in Bergen, where a few tracks from the album were played, it is clear that even after over twenty years Taake's iconic frontman and founder Hoest continues to bring freshness and originality to the scene with his unique brand of Helnorsk Svartmetall.

British melodic hard rock giants TEN to unveil the European track listing for the new album 'Albion', officially released on the 21st November, 2014 via Rocktopia Records/Cargo Records. Limited advance copies of 'Albion' will actually be available to buy at their UK Firefest Performance, October 24th and at the album pre-listening party on October 23rd at The Royal Suite, the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Nottingham. 'Albion' is the first of two new albums that TEN will release through Rocktopia Records, with second album due for release first half of 2015.

TEN are also proud to announce the launch of their new updated official website, www.tenofficial.com. In celebration of their stunning new album ‘Albion‘ they are launching an all new social media compatible site. It comes complete with links to all the TEN Fan Sites around the world. The new website will be the Mother site, providing up to date news and links translated into every language imaginable, including Greek, Spanish, Italian and Japanese.

'Albion' is a fine collection of songs steeped in all the trademark essences associated with the band and is instantly recognisable as TEN. This is classic TEN in every sense of the phrase. The songs on 'Albion' are destined to become Melodic Hard Rock Anthems.

The name TEN is synonymous with some of the music genre's most striking album sleeves. In keeping with this TEN tradition the artwork this time is provided by the exceptionally talented Gaetano Di Falco. 'Albion' is produced by Gary Hughes (TEN, Solo, Bob Catley, Hugo, Kane Roberts) and once again mixed and mastered by Dennis Ward (Unisonic, Bob Catley, Sunstorm, Place Vendome, Pink Cream 69).

This is an exciting era for TEN. It features all the familiar faces and one or two new ones who have integrated seamlessly, embellishing the TEN sound and taking things to yet another level. TEN are definitely firing on all cylinders.

On September 30th the Detroit, Michigan (U.S.) Metal act Temple Of Void will release their debut full length album "Of Terror and the Supernatural" on multiple labels as well as multiple formats. "Of Terror and the Supernatural" includes eight tracks of early British doom mixed with old school American death metal with a running time of just over fifty minutes. The album was recorded by Clyde Wilson ~Mt. Doom Studio / Mark Hudson ~Audiolux Studio, with Todd Konecny ~Bright White Light Studio handling the mixing and Tony Hamera with the Mastering duties. While the artwork was provided by the legendary fantasy artist Bruce Pennington (http://www.brucepennington.co.uk). "Of Terror and the Supernatural" will be released on Double LP & Cassette on Saw Her Ghost Records and on CD through Rain Without End Records. Preorders are now available through both labels Webstores. Sell your soul and enter the Temple of Void!

An Official Video for a track from "Of Terror and the Supernatural" has been filmed and will be released to the general public in the near future.

Metal Underground have premiered the new lyrics video for Deep In Hate's "The Cattle Procession," a song taken from the band's latest and third full-length, Chronicles of Oblivion, released on June 3rd, 2014.

The lyrics video will plunge you into the concept behind the album: a dark future that sees our so-called civilization evolve into (even) more tyranny, more oppression. Not really a "concept album," Chronicles of Oblivion has this main theme being explored on all songs, with a different aspect of it being the main theme of each track. So, after entering the "New Republic" and facing the "Altars of Lies," enter "The Cattle Procession!"

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Hailing from Germany,
here is the death metal/ grindcore act of 2014. They are called Keitzer. The
line-up is Tim Terhechte on drums, Michael Dölle and Nicolai Hinse on guitars,
Christian Chaco on vocals and Simon Venig on bass. They already released some albums,
and now their latest full-length is released on July 18th, 2014. It is called
The Last Defence.

The Last Defence has
14 songs on it with an total length of 37 minutes. And, yeah, I got to say,
those 37 minutes will blow you away. This is some heavy fuckin' blastbeating
death metal/grindcore that you feel in your whole body, it goes straight to
your bones and it will almost drill them out of your body. Keitzer know how to
make some good metal. It is fast, heavy and you enjoy it most when you listen
it out loud, very loud. So let your whole neighborhood get to know Keitzer.
Turn the volume up to the max and blow them away.

Grindcore/death metal
is something you like? Make sure you don't miss this release. You will love The
Last Defence by Keitzer!

Before the show of Savage Messiah in Hillegom, Netherlands I spoke with Dave and Joff from the band.

What's the story
behind your bandname?

Dave: The name of the
band comes from I was in a band together and I was very, very late watching Sky
TV and I was going to the guide to see, you know, what I wanted to watch. And I
am going to the movies and there was a movie on the telly called Savage
Messiah. I didn't watch the film, but I thought the name and I thought, oh,
that's a cool name and we did pick it up using it for the band.

Allright. Could you
tell something about the history of the band?

Dave: Yeah, so we
formed in 2007 and we had an independent release. It came out in the time when
a lot of thrash bands started to come back and we got a little bit stuck up
that movement and then we got time in
2009 with Candlelight Records, we did an album with them and we toured with
Overkill and played with Death Angel. We left Candlelight, we finded Earache
Records, when kind of this ... of line-up came together and we did an album
named Conscience and then we needed more touring with that and festivals. Then
we did our third album called The Fateful Dark. I think it is our best record.
For us it points the path we want to go in the future. It is sort of thrash,
but it is not a thrash record, it is not typical thrash. We came up with a lot
of those thrash bands like Evile and those bands, which are all great bands. We
see our music is a bit different, a bit more classic heavy metal. I like that
very much, I am very pleased with it. Classic metal and thrash combine forever.

What are the
influences of your music?

Joff: All sort of things,
we are really into the new wave of British heavy metal stuff, we like bands
like Motorhead and Diamond Head, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, bands like that,
but also the thrash elements in our music come from bands like that, classic
Metallica, Megadeth, Sodom, it's a bit of a mix of the two styles and I think
The Fateful Dark is a good marriage of the two styles, you hear a lot of that
coming out in the record. Yeah, it's a mix really, but we are taking our
influences from all over the place. For example, we play a riff on the piano at
the rehearsal or something and we change it into a metal riff.

Dave: We like things
like that. We are currently writing for our next album now and too interesting
for me is too see the direction of coming out and clearly natural again between
classic metal and thrash, but this time it will be much more experimental right
in front. I am more confident in writing and the cool thing about not being
just a thrash metal band is that we can have a lot of variety on our albums and
still sound like it's the same band. All of our albums have lot of things going
on. We do a slow song, we do an epic song or we do a thrash song. I think I
hoped that nobody could look at it and say we are trying to be something like
all, for really thrash albums that go commercial. We always said from the start
we'll do heavy metal stuff and kind of modern sometimes.

That's what makes your
music unique. You guys already released an EP and two full-length's and now The
Fateful Dark is released. Did much changed?

Dave: Yeah, everything
really. I think the vision of the band never changed. I suppose it is very
difficult nowadays for bands actually. You know, there are a lot of bands, the
industry is not as structured as it used to be. Putting back in day, getting a
record deal would be the start of you are on your way now, but now it doesn't
represent the same thing as it used to. It is very, very difficult and because
of that, it can put a lot of pressure on members in bands. People change, it
can be very difficult. We are in the coolest line-up for three and a half
years, which is in metal terms today like an eternity. But I am still proud of
that. For me, the spirit of the band is really captured on the last album.

What are the lyrics
about on The Fateful Dark?

Dave: Very stuff, you
know, some cliche heavy metal comic book stuff and we are inspired by Gandhi,
the Indian pacifist. And some political, well not political, because that is
too easy to say, but more thoughtful, philosophical. Not political in the sense
of watching the news, that will be boring, that will make your music in a
spirit of time.

Now you are on tour
and you've already said you're writing a new album, are there other future
plans?

Dave: Yes, absolutely.
We are quite busy till the end of the year. We got our headlining gigs, which
is cool. We are halfway at writing the record and we've been off for a really
cool tour, which I can't tell you anything about, but if that happens that will
be early next year, which is very, very cool and we are going over to America
next year for showcases and stuff like that and that are things we are doing
for a long time.

Joff: Japan.

Dave: Oh yeah, Japan.
Yeah, we supposed to be going to Japan for 2-3 gigs because this year we
finally got a record deal out in Japan with a company called Trooper
Entertainment, who do Arch Enemy and Ghost and In Flames in Japan, which are
cool bands and they found our album and they are going to take us to Japan.

Allright. This is the
first date on your current tour. To what dates are you looking forward the most
and why?

Joff: Every gig, we're
in a band, we just love playing gigs, we going to pick and choose the right
gig, we will play everywhere and every gig is different, so you always enjoy a
gig in a different way. But even if you have a small gig, the atmosphere might
be awesome and they think what a killer gig, so yeah, every gig is different,
we always enjoy it a different way, as long as we've got fans to play for, we
are happy.

That's cool. You also
have some tourdates on this tour with The More I See. How do you look at them?

Dave: We like them,
they are good guys. Gizz, the main dude, is a legend, he is one of the coolest
guys in the metal world. He is really down to earth and that's a lot of fun.
That came about, because I was on a bike ride for charity and we met. And on
this bike ride he was telling me it was really difficult to get gigs an get an
agent and I knew exactly what he was talking about. And I thought we got to get
him up and I say we would love you to play with us, I see if I could make that
happen and thankfully it were. Because
it is a nice guy and we are happy to him that favour.

Joff: I really am
looking forward to play with them. He is a really nice guy and the rest of the
guys in The More I See are really nice, so it will be a good few days with
them. It will be fun.

Dave: And it's cool
because a lot of things we talked about, and I thought we got a touring, come
play with us, I try to make it happen, people say things like that all the time
in music and it rarely happen. I didn't want to be the person that said, yeah
we will make it happen and then nothing happens. But when we are together I
felt like, good, I can be on my words.

When you could choose
every band in the world. Which band will you choose to tour with?

Dave: Iron Maiden.

Joff: Yeah, Iron
Maiden, man. If we really could play with Iron Maiden, I play the gig and I
quit, It ain't going to better than that. That would be amazing.

Dave: That would be
amazing, yeah

What advice would you
give to young and starting bands?

Joff: Never give up,
because you got so many people that start a band and they start doing a few
gigs and stuff like that and they expect everything handed on a plate. It's
like how do you come like this or how do you do things like that. It's because
I worked for it, you know. If you stop, then someone else is taking all the
chances that you're not doing. So keep going, its the way of getting there, and
its the way of getting attention really.

Dave: And be patient.
It is a very difficult industry, nowadays it's even harder and it's getting
harder and harder with time. It is a very difficult environment to start bands
but that mean it is only a greater challenge. That shouldn't mean you have to
stop, be patient, be honest, be objective and be happy.

Joff: It does make it little
bit more rewarding, because it is that much harder in a lot of ways. When you
do get that stroke of good luck or you do get that really good gig or something
good happens, you really appreciate it, it's like yes, oh, that felt good. You
can feel really high about it, it may have to be something really small but
when you so much battling against it.

Dave: Yeah, sometimes
you have to be brave for it.

Joff: You have to get
that little kick in the ass.

Dave: It can be one
email or something. And sometimes things come up and they don't happen. It's kind
of like, we had things, like big tours from really big bands, being offered, we
even accepted it. Only at the last minute things change, it is a very political
industry.

What is your
definition of success as a band?

Dave: Enjoying.

Joff: Yeah, enjoying.
I think you should enjoy what you're doing, like against it all, because it is
a hard slug. You're touring and you want to pay the record, but you can't and
you can still get enjoyment out of it. It's like a personal reward or
something.

Dave: Yeah, and laugh
about the stories. Every time we go away it is like a big holiday. And I never want to lose that, even if our
band goes to the next level, when we become more succesfull in terms of sales
and other conventional ways. I will never going to lose that.

Joff: If you take a
band like Iron Maiden, the biggest metal band that ever existed, in my eyes.
They may not sell that much, but who cares? You look at them now, bigger than they
ever were. Eventually they are just a bunch of guys in a band, only their van
got better. They got a cool van.

What do you think
about metal bands which are really big, and because they got old they lose
public?

Dave: Yeah, I think it
is the way it goes.

Joff: That would be,
when I am fifty, supposing fifty is old. How old is Brian now?

Dave: He is in his
sixties.

Joff: I think that
would be absolutely going mental when you put it in time.

Dave: You physically
can't do it but you will, because you prolong the music. And if you prolong the
music, because that is important, and you need to be fit to do that. In terms
you take bands that too old to play and then they just sort of take a step
back, I think that is absolutely the right thing to do.

But should you
stop at when you're big?

Dave: That depends, I
mean, I think you should only stop if deep down you aren't enjoying anymore for
ever reason.

Joff: If your heart is
not in it, you shouldn't be doing it. If you go to a show, and you think "Oh,
another show" "Yeah, hello Cleveland, ehh" and you're not happy
on stage, you should stop with it. Because your fans see through that, and
you're not enjoying the performance and your fans aren't enjoying. That's when
you need to stop. Time to call it a day off I think.

Dave: But with the
classic metal bands, they don't do it, because it is still a job, and if the
band is making the money, you got managers involved. I have an example of
working in a band, but only as a fan from the outside. I look at maybe Slayer
and I think it is an example for a band. One of the great things Slayer when
they were an original band. I know they have had a period with problems and
everything. They are the same three guys. Jeff Hanneman wrote most of the classic
songs. That's an example, at least in my opinion how, and it is not to me to
tell anybody to stop, but Slayer will carry on. Why? Because Slayer would sell
out the show every night. Because it is the same energy they once were. Or is
it a job?

Joff: Because as a fan
you still go to a show of Slayer and say that was a cool Slayer gig. Even if it
is not one.

What is the craziest thing
that happened on stage during a performance of you?

Joff: It is going to
be Barcelona

Dave: Yeah, it is
going to be Barcelona. We were on tour last year, and we were playing in
Barcelona, sell out crowd an stuff. Someone made a joke putting one of a thong on
the merchandise stand, having for selling to girls.

Joff: I said I put one
on and invade the stage and dance around like an idiot or something. And we got
to Barcelone, the gig was sold out, it was packed, 600-700 people. So, I am
going to do it, so I came running on stage in my boots (New Rocks) and a thong
and as I walked from one side of the stage to the other I pulled one of the
leads out of the guitar and I spotted it, like oh crap. So I picked it up,
plugged the thing back in, but my balls were hanging out.

Dave: It was just one
testicle and it was so funny. There is a video on Youtube if you google 'guitarist
exposes his testicle during stage invasion wearing a thong'. It is on the
Savage Messiah Youtube channel. You can see it there, if you want it.

Joff: It is not
pretty.

Dave: I was on holiday
and I was telling the story and I was thinking they don't believe a word I am
saying. They were like very interested. And I got the video to show them.

Where do you think you
would be without music?

Dave: I don't know.

Joff: Bored. I don't
know. Because music, not just playing bands and stuff, but music in general, it
is been my whole growing up. Getting into bands, going to watch bands. I have
never really known anything else. If I didn't have music I don't know what I
have got to do.

Dave: I am the same. I
am very happy that I have music. It is not just a career choice, it is a
calling. It's like I can do that, that's what I am going to do.

Joff: The blood, sweat
and tears you have to put in it, even if you getting nowhere, you have to do
it. You have this thing in you that said, keep going, keep going.

Is there anything else
you want to share?

Dave: Thanks for the
interview, thanks to the readers for checking us out.